The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-01-13
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ranged for by party Of Australians.
An ocean steamship is said TO have
used $4,000 worth of coal on a recent
voyage.
Teeth pulled while you wait" is the
announcement made by a dentist IN
Deadwood.
Brick is being imported from Chicago
to be used in a new city building in San
Diego, Cal.
For the theft of shilling shirt poor
devil in England was sent to a cell for
five years.
A new absurdity is to put Grape bow
on the collar of Il pet dog whose owner
Is in mourning.
A season of German opera costs every
owner of box in the New York Metro
poitan fully $1,000.
y petrified human being is said to
have been discovered in cave on Sand
mountain, Tennessee. a few days ago.
The yield of one Dakota farm is given
as 10000 bushels of wheat, 5000 bush
els of barley and $4,000 bushels of oats.
The Granite Mountain Mine in Mon
tana has paid twenty-five dividends IN
fifteen months amounting to 81 100000.
In Hawthorne, N4b., sand is often
used 10 extincuish fires in the absence
of water, and it is said TO be quite eil,'ct-
ual.
Mrs. Custer. the widow of General
Custer is broken in health and is seek
ing restoration in Herkimer County,
n. Y.
Ba; ;e ball has been introduced into
the Pittsburgh Insane Asylum for the
physical and mental improvement of the
inmates
A South Carolina hunter recently shot
a buck whose head was white and whose
horns were short and curved like the
horns of a goat.
In Cuba soup is made of plantain.
sometimes dried and ground to pow
der, and sometimes used fresh and
green for puree.
A check for 1 cent was recently drawn
in New York by the government in fav-
or of IN importer who had paid excess
of duty to that extent.
Piedmont, Georgia, comes forward
with the claim of having within its linn
its tree that drops snow from its
branches ut regular intervals.
Vermont pays its judges S2,500, and
there is IA scheme to raise the salaries to
$4,000, with $500 for expenses. The
Green Mountain Governor gets 81. 900.
Fifty thousand tons of SCOT are taken
from London chimneys year. 1t is es-
timatel TO be worth 100000, and is
used as fertilizer. half a ton to an acre.
T. In INN
on butter at the Spokane far. She is
the wife of Saltese. Chief of the C9ur
d 'Aienc Indians, and is very proud OF
her diploma.
British Guiana is making large ship
menrs of gold to England, and the pros
poets are that the shipments will rival in
value the great exports of sugar, molas-
scs and rum.
A big gopher snake was killed re-
Gently ut DAYTON Florida, in whose
stomach was found Il three-foot rattle
snake, still alive. The gopher was over
six feet IN length.
President Arthur used often to out
wall king in Washington, and before do
ing SO invariably put a lot of silver
coins IN II handy pocket to give to beg
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The A gentine Republic is doing a
large business in supplying Chill and
the We t Coast with meat. All the pass
es of the Andes are said to be full oil
cattle and sheep waiting for a purchas-
Or.
Great difficulty is experienced in get
ting Indian children at the Uintah, Col
'orado, agency TO attend the school a
Grand Junction. because their parent:
fear that they are to be taken East anC
= sold into slavery.
The chair moth" which creates havoc
mid fine head of hair, rapidly DESTROY
talked of in New York and BSokiyn
and the cheap barber shops are being
blamed for the propagation.
The famous Centinela ranch. near Lo
Angeles, Cal, containing twelve thou
sand acres of the finest grazing lands il
that vicinity. was sold recently to a rail
road company for nearly $1.000.00O. |
is to be used for railroad purposes.
Rhea, the actress. wishes to have iii,
announcement made that she does no
intend 10 marry. Between marrying
not marrying, and getting divorced, th'
average actress has three good chance
of keeping her name in the newspapers
A daughter of William Miller, living
in the Calespel Valley, Oregon, few
days ago found a human skull in one o
the streams emptying into the lake. Al
auger which had been driven into tin
skull was still sticking in the ghastl,
relic.
Edward NJ. Knox of New York i
afflicted with the ownership of a mon
ster emerald weighing eighteen carats
1t knocks the spots out of the best
known emeralds in Europe, and ha
made all the connoisseurs of gems tarl
green with envy.
The farmers of Yolo County, Califor
dia are using the refuse of the winerie
with good results for a fertilizer. Afte
the grapes have been crushed. the seeds
stems and skins are gathered up an,
carried off by the farmers, who dunn
them on their lands and plow them un
der
Mr.. Brandenburgh of Philadelphia
will go down 10 po,terity rs the owne
Of the largest doy in America Ko!os
is a Danish hound of noble ancestry,
nine feet long and five feet high. II
has an immense head. and a huge bod
of tawny color streaked with darl
gray.
A gardener who recently received
sound rating from his master. u land
owner of Normandy, turned indignant
ly upon him with the remark: "Yo
need not treat me like "A common fc
low, I'd have you to know | am tn
nephew of Louvel, who assassinated til
Due de Berry
Mrs. Proctor. the widow of Barr
Cornwall, is still, rs for the last ha
century, one of the most charming VIC
men in London. She perfectly well IT
members the national jubilee in En-
gland on account of King George III
entering the fiftieth year of his reign
which took place Oct. %. 1909.
1t is related in Buffalo that youn
married man of that city, going hom
very early the other morning and er
deavoring to steal quietly 10 the spar
room without awakening his wife. wa
fairly paralyzed by a clear, wide-awak
voice saying: '.What was the limi
George?" She had sized George up.
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